Gwen with Skarner
How to Synergize Gwen and Skarner
based on 249 Gwen with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Skarner
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Gwen Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Skarner helps Gwen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Skarner, she gets a sizeable uptick in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Skarner helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Skarner on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Skarner does a poor job of covering Gwen during teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Skarner
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Gwen that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Skarner is a very typical teammate for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Gwen and Skarner that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Skarner allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gwen and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to synergize with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Gwen and Skarner synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 47.4% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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